{"product_id":"the-double-mother-paperback","title":"The Double Mother - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichel Bussi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSam Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the \"wonderfully ingenious\" (Marilyn Stasio, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) novel \u003cem\u003eAfter The Crash\u003c\/em\u003e comes a brilliant work of deception that dives deep into the psyche of a child and cruel game of manipulating a person's memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour-year-old Malone Moulin is haunted by nightmares of being handed over to a complete stranger and begins claiming his mother is not his real mother. His teachers at school say that it is all in his imagination as his mother has a birth certificate, photos of him as a child and even the pediatrician confirms Malone is her son. The school psychologist, Vasily, believes otherwise as the child vividly describes an exchange between two women. Vasily begins recording their conversations and reinterprets the creatures Malone uses in the childish tales he recounts to his stuffed toy to piece the story together as much as he can.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConvinced that Malone is telling the truth, Vasile approaches police commander Marianne Augresse with the case, who has been searching for a gang of thieves that robbed a luxury store and left a couple dead in the neighboring town of Deauville to no avail. Not knowing why a child would lie and with perhaps her own own maternal and protective instinct kicking in, Marianne takes Vasile's plead for help seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarianne and her team soon discern that Malone's memory is in the hands of those around him; the cold members of the Moulin family and the people that they associate themselves with. With Malone's recollection of the past quickly fading to give way to pirates, animals and other more innocent thoughts children have at his age, Marianne is desperate to find a through line.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWell-crafted and showcasing the fragility of a child's cognition, \u003cem\u003eThe Double Mother\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting investigation to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Bussi\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of geopolitics and one of France's bestselling authors. His novels have been published in 35 different countries. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Crash\u003c\/i\u003e (Hachette, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eBlack Water Lilies\u003c\/i\u003e (Hachette, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eTime Is a Killer\u003c\/i\u003e (Europa, 2018). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of \u003ci\u003eHHhH\u003c\/i\u003e, by Laurent Binet, and the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Island at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Amnesiac\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in France and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247657206009,"sku":"9781609455194","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NFhwYTlWMXViVTVPWjhDdnpNaDdwdz09.webp?v=1768626942","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-double-mother-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}